Have to agree. Two years ago I could see the car in the driveway on Google Earth. With the new images (2008) I can't even make out the house. I'm quite surprised that their is no feedback button in the interface for the quality of particular images/locations.
[quote]that should be reflected by ISP pricing.[/quote]
Except that the current model benefits ISP's. Most people only use a tiny fraction of the available bandwidth, yet their current pricing does not reflect that. They overpay, so that a tiny fraction can use the remaining bandwidth. If ISP's were to change the pricing according to usage, the vast bulk of consumers would pay less, and a tiny fraction of cosumers would have to pay much more, which they are unlikely to do (they'll either move to another ISP or cut down on their usuage).
The net-effect will be less income for the ISP (though perhaps a higher profit margin) and less money to invest. That may sound silly, but here in the Netherlands, all plans are unlimited (FUP). Out southern neighbor, Belgium, does have tiered monthly plans. Guess who has the fastest and cheapest connections and the most modern infrastructure?
Personally, I'm not waiting for that kind of realism, but on the other hand, I sometimes question the way violence in games is censored. In GTA: San Andres you can shop/shoot off someones head, yet the head disappears and the blood is doesn't look realistic at all (as with most of the violence in GTA). IMHO that can backfire as well, as it can make people indifferent and careless to violence. Compare that to real violence which has an strong emotional to even physical sickening effect on people. If a beheading in GTA was as real as in the Real World, I'd probably wouldn't do it.
You can wonder whether it is sane to control your computer by interfaces which chew the bulk of your available computing power. But I think that when such system enter the market, they will have one or two dedicated cores for them (though, while facial expression may seem complex, language recognition interpretation really is a lot harder) and leave the rest of the cores alone.
It is not according to the European Courts. You can trademark a colour for a specific market (say, telecommunications). The problem is that many telco's now see the Internet as their market and thus assume their trademark applies their as well. Orange has been doing the same for years, threating websites that use orange on their website or in their domainname (yes, I lost my domain / website as well, because it isn't all talk, they really sue and are prepared to fight it to the European Court). So, no orange, no magenta, which colour will be next?
IMHO, granting trademark on colours is another Tragedy of the Commons.
Have to agree. A substantial proportion of defacements are the results of security holes in scripting languages/scripts, with PHP leading the way. If you run a webserver, check your HTTP-security or Snort logs.
This is an utterly ridiculous idea. It taxes those who don't download copyright-infringing files to pay for those who do - and who will probably continue to download much more than $5-worth of tracks, subsidised by others.
Illegal downloaders need to stop freeloading off the rest of us and pay for the things they want.
No everyone who downloads is doing something illegal (in some countries it is LEGAL) and not everyone who downloads is a freeloader. I recently discovered I misplaced my favorite Moby. It is somewhere in a wrong box, but going through 150-200 legally purchased CD's is kind of time-consuming. Downloading is not.
11 months ago I order one of my favorite movies on DVD. 3 months later, it was still on backorder. Guess what I did? (Yes, I eventually got the DVD through another retailer who had a copy left.) My DVD collection is approaching 100. Most of the movies I found through p2p. Would never have known them without.
Two years back I wanted to order one of my favorite TV-shows on DVD. I couldn't find them, but I did find a petition that asked for it. The response to it was that they were looking into it, but there was not enough financial incentive at the present time. Most likely, there never will be. Guess what I did?
TV-shows are a bit different. I don't mind watching a good tv-show and some advertising. But, most reasonably popular shows air one year later here as in the US. Which mean I cannot visit any International/US-based forum (or wikipedia/imdb for that matter), because some frickin ***** doesn't have the ******* courtesy to put *** SPOILER *** into his posts. I don't mind a week or a month of delay, but a YEAR? There are even US DVDrips online before movies show up in the Cinemas in Europe. That's just silly.
Last, not to smart to say on a predominantly US Apple-fan forum, but why does Apple charge US customers.99$ and charges EU-citizens.99 euro? Why am I not allowed to purchase anything from their US store and do I need to use US-proxies for that?
Probably has something to do with it, but I think the main reason was that the prices in the US were just insanely low in order to fight the Format War. No point in keep selling units for a price that doesn't turn in profit. The price-level here (Europe) has not even been near that of the US.
Price in euro's is here (Netherlands) is 325 euro (500 dollar) if you purchase from a online webshop. A more common price is 350-385 euro (538-590 dollar). Suggested retail-price by Sony is 385 euro (590 dollar).
...I'd say it has to do with the telecom industry charging businesses more than consumers, especially if they're "reselling" the service (for free). I don't know for a fact that this is the case...
It is, read the Terms of Service of your ISP. You're not allowed to resell the service and you probably aren't even allowed to share it for free. You are probably also not allowed to run any servers.
However, business do get something back (at least where I live). Better and faster support, SLA's, less overbooking on the line, managed modem/router, allowed to run servers, static IP, multiple IP's, better upload, etc.
It can be as simple as paying 10 euros per day when you are abroad.
Someone need a reality check. Why would anyone pay 10 euro's per day if you can get WiFi access for free or as low as 10 euro's per month? Sure, there are people who are willing to pay those amounts, but personally, I rather spend my vacation money on beer than watching YouTube over 3G.
I don't recall ever clicking an ad either but, if I blindly speculate correctly, some ad-revenue is generated based on targeted viewing rather than purely click-through.
I don't know the specifics for Slashdot, but, click-through is one of many ways of advertising. Impressions alone (e.g. targeted viewing) are a important market as well (branding).
I use AdMuncher for my adblocking, including those here on Slashdot. While I do feel guilty about blocking those ads, surfing without an Adblocker for an hour cures that. I do not want to look at obtrusive ads with some scattered content around them. I don't want to look for content buried in dozens of ads which aren't even remotely targeted. If I want an Attention Deficit Disorder, I'll order it myself, no need for advertisers to do it for me.
I do want to look at content and I may want to looks sideways/beneath to see if there are any interesting products/services they aren't/should be aware of.
AFAIK, online advertisers have gone too far and content providers seem careless and indifferent when it comes to their audience.
I dunno, it seems to me that FreeBSD suits the desktop role really well
It does (I use it too) BUT only in specific environments. FreeBSD hardware support is not bad, but it is nowhere near as complete as that found in the various Linux distro's. My wireless keyboard + mouse is supported under any recent Linux distro, on FreeBSD, only the keyboard works (fixable with a unofficial ums.ko though). No support under FreeBSD for my DVB-C PCI card either.
my 5 meg connection actually gets about 1.5 megs/s on a good day which means that for a 20 gig movie, it will take just about 4 hours to download Do the math, it is megabytes he's talking about. Downloading a 20 Gigabyte movie (on par with the average size of a Blu-Ray) in 4 hours: (20*1024)/(4*60*60)= 1.42 MB/s
Everyone is going to download their HD movies onto servers. Slashdotters may have (media)servers, most people don't.
But even if they did have, there is still the issue that many countries don't have a decent fast broadband infrastructure. Even if you can get a 20Mb/s+ connection (which would be needed for streaming HD or decent downloading), that line is still overbooked xx times; it's not going to work if people start renting/buying movies online en masse. And I doubt that all ISP's are investing in backbones that are capable of handling such a large amount of traffic that will ensue if digital delivery takes. They are already complaining today about p2p.
IE7 might be slower and might even contain more bugs, but I can't believe it contains as much memory leaks as FF2.
Second, the extensions in FF2 are great, but can suck just as hard. Install the wrong or a bugged one and FF2 can grind to a halt.
While FF2 certainly beats IE7 in many respects, it isn't all glitz.
No, the world is not actually cooling. It just happens that this winter is, for many parts of the world, colder and wetter than normal. Here in the Netherlands (West Europe) winter was nowhere to be found (December was more or less normal though). Spring has set on about a month before schedule this year.
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For interested to learn something about the techniques in the times of McNamara: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/
To add to that. It also used a special paint to adsorb radar-signals as much as possible.
As a movie-fan, I just wish they had the same Aspect Ratio as in the Cinema (which people seem to forget, is NOT 16:9).
Have to agree. Two years ago I could see the car in the driveway on Google Earth. With the new images (2008) I can't even make out the house. I'm quite surprised that their is no feedback button in the interface for the quality of particular images/locations.
Future proof would have been cat7.
Except that the current model benefits ISP's. Most people only use a tiny fraction of the available bandwidth, yet their current pricing does not reflect that. They overpay, so that a tiny fraction can use the remaining bandwidth. If ISP's were to change the pricing according to usage, the vast bulk of consumers would pay less, and a tiny fraction of cosumers would have to pay much more, which they are unlikely to do (they'll either move to another ISP or cut down on their usuage).
The net-effect will be less income for the ISP (though perhaps a higher profit margin) and less money to invest. That may sound silly, but here in the Netherlands, all plans are unlimited (FUP). Out southern neighbor, Belgium, does have tiered monthly plans. Guess who has the fastest and cheapest connections and the most modern infrastructure?
But if it sells, why not?
Personally, I'm not waiting for that kind of realism, but on the other hand, I sometimes question the way violence in games is censored. In GTA: San Andres you can shop/shoot off someones head, yet the head disappears and the blood is doesn't look realistic at all (as with most of the violence in GTA). IMHO that can backfire as well, as it can make people indifferent and careless to violence. Compare that to real violence which has an strong emotional to even physical sickening effect on people. If a beheading in GTA was as real as in the Real World, I'd probably wouldn't do it.
You can wonder whether it is sane to control your computer by interfaces which chew the bulk of your available computing power. But I think that when such system enter the market, they will have one or two dedicated cores for them (though, while facial expression may seem complex, language recognition interpretation really is a lot harder) and leave the rest of the cores alone.
It is not according to the European Courts. You can trademark a colour for a specific market (say, telecommunications). The problem is that many telco's now see the Internet as their market and thus assume their trademark applies their as well. Orange has been doing the same for years, threating websites that use orange on their website or in their domainname (yes, I lost my domain / website as well, because it isn't all talk, they really sue and are prepared to fight it to the European Court). So, no orange, no magenta, which colour will be next?
IMHO, granting trademark on colours is another Tragedy of the Commons.
Have to agree. A substantial proportion of defacements are the results of security holes in scripting languages/scripts, with PHP leading the way. If you run a webserver, check your HTTP-security or Snort logs.
No everyone who downloads is doing something illegal (in some countries it is LEGAL) and not everyone who downloads is a freeloader. I recently discovered I misplaced my favorite Moby. It is somewhere in a wrong box, but going through 150-200 legally purchased CD's is kind of time-consuming. Downloading is not.
11 months ago I order one of my favorite movies on DVD. 3 months later, it was still on backorder. Guess what I did? (Yes, I eventually got the DVD through another retailer who had a copy left.) My DVD collection is approaching 100. Most of the movies I found through p2p. Would never have known them without.
Two years back I wanted to order one of my favorite TV-shows on DVD. I couldn't find them, but I did find a petition that asked for it. The response to it was that they were looking into it, but there was not enough financial incentive at the present time. Most likely, there never will be. Guess what I did?
TV-shows are a bit different. I don't mind watching a good tv-show and some advertising. But, most reasonably popular shows air one year later here as in the US. Which mean I cannot visit any International/US-based forum (or wikipedia/imdb for that matter), because some frickin ***** doesn't have the ******* courtesy to put *** SPOILER *** into his posts. I don't mind a week or a month of delay, but a YEAR? There are even US DVDrips online before movies show up in the Cinemas in Europe. That's just silly.
Last, not to smart to say on a predominantly US Apple-fan forum, but why does Apple charge US customers .99$ and charges EU-citizens .99 euro? Why am I not allowed to purchase anything from their US store and do I need to use US-proxies for that?
Probably has something to do with it, but I think the main reason was that the prices in the US were just insanely low in order to fight the Format War. No point in keep selling units for a price that doesn't turn in profit. The price-level here (Europe) has not even been near that of the US.
Price in euro's is here (Netherlands) is 325 euro (500 dollar) if you purchase from a online webshop. A more common price is 350-385 euro (538-590 dollar). Suggested retail-price by Sony is 385 euro (590 dollar).
...I'd say it has to do with the telecom industry charging businesses more than consumers, especially if they're "reselling" the service (for free). I don't know for a fact that this is the case...It is, read the Terms of Service of your ISP. You're not allowed to resell the service and you probably aren't even allowed to share it for free. You are probably also not allowed to run any servers.
However, business do get something back (at least where I live). Better and faster support, SLA's, less overbooking on the line, managed modem/router, allowed to run servers, static IP, multiple IP's, better upload, etc.
Someone need a reality check. Why would anyone pay 10 euro's per day if you can get WiFi access for free or as low as 10 euro's per month? Sure, there are people who are willing to pay those amounts, but personally, I rather spend my vacation money on beer than watching YouTube over 3G.
I don't know the specifics for Slashdot, but, click-through is one of many ways of advertising. Impressions alone (e.g. targeted viewing) are a important market as well (branding).
I use AdMuncher for my adblocking, including those here on Slashdot. While I do feel guilty about blocking those ads, surfing without an Adblocker for an hour cures that. I do not want to look at obtrusive ads with some scattered content around them. I don't want to look for content buried in dozens of ads which aren't even remotely targeted. If I want an Attention Deficit Disorder, I'll order it myself, no need for advertisers to do it for me.
I do want to look at content and I may want to looks sideways/beneath to see if there are any interesting products/services they aren't/should be aware of.
AFAIK, online advertisers have gone too far and content providers seem careless and indifferent when it comes to their audience.
It does (I use it too) BUT only in specific environments. FreeBSD hardware support is not bad, but it is nowhere near as complete as that found in the various Linux distro's. My wireless keyboard + mouse is supported under any recent Linux distro, on FreeBSD, only the keyboard works (fixable with a unofficial ums.ko though). No support under FreeBSD for my DVB-C PCI card either.
5 Meg(abyte per second) = 40Mbps. Not sure where you live, but (FTTH/ETTH/VDSL/Docsis 3) not typical in most countries (yet).
PerfectDark, Steathnet, Omemo, OFFSYSTEM. They don't compare to any popular p2p-app in terms of speed, but they are more or less anonymous.
If I remember correctly, SP1 will prevent this crack from working, as well as the time-limit crack.
Space Rangers 2: Rise of the Dominators (installed through Stardock Central) for one. One of the most fun games I ever played.
IE7 might be slower and might even contain more bugs, but I can't believe it contains as much memory leaks as FF2. Second, the extensions in FF2 are great, but can suck just as hard. Install the wrong or a bugged one and FF2 can grind to a halt. While FF2 certainly beats IE7 in many respects, it isn't all glitz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons